cfp - medievalhttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/category/medieval
enICMS Kalamazoo 2020: Aristotle à rebours, Unconventional Aristotelianism in 13th and 14th Century Italyhttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/11/icms-kalamazoo-2020-aristotle-%C3%A0-rebours-unconventional-aristotelianism-in-13th-and
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 10:01am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Joseph Romano / Italian and Italianists at Kalamazoo</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:jr3850@columbia.edu">jr3850@columbia.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/poetry">poetry</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/religion">religion</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">September 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p align="center">Aristotle<em> à rebours</em>:</p>
<p align="center">Unconventional Aristotelianism in 13th and 14th Century Italy</p>
<p align="center"><em>Sponsored by Italians &amp; Italianists at Kalamazoo</em></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><strong>CFP: ICMS Kalamazoo 2020, May 7-10</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Aristotle’s transformation from heretical source to intellectual authority testifies to the fact that his scholastic assimilation was uneven and often controversial, and it is the aim of this panel to explore those figures whose Aristotelianism has been perceived, by either their contemporaries or their scholars, as historically peculiar or unorthodox.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Engaging Aristotle's askance medieval reception, this panel invites papers that re-examine fundamental questions for the schoolmen and poets alike. To what extent did allegiance to Aristotle and/or his commentators allow for novel, even undogmatic, ways of thinking through foundational questions, such as the nature of the soul and body, the relation between the intellect and desire, or the meaning of virtue and nobility? It is this panel’s wager that medieval Italy provides a testing ground for exploring how an “unconventional” Aristotle emerges in the overlaps between faith, philosophy, and poetry. At the same time, this panel welcomes papers that span medieval Europe, its borders, and beyond—especially those whose investigations illuminate the complexity of the linguistic, cultural and political factors tied to Aristotelian reception in the Middle Ages, and the Italian Middle Ages in particular. </p>
<p align="center">Papers should be <strong>15-20</strong> minutes long.</p>
<p align="center">Please send abstracts of c. 250 words and a brief bio to Joseph Romano (<a href="mailto:jr3850@columbia.edu" target="_blank">jr3850@columbia.edu</a>) and Kristen Hook (<a href="mailto:kristen.hook@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">kristen.hook@berkeley.edu</a>)</p>
<p align="center">by <strong>15 September 2019</strong></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><strong><a href="https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call#I">https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call#I</a></strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:37:22 +0000jr3850@columbia.edu81931 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduICMS Kalamazoo 2020: Medieval Habitshttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/10/icms-kalamazoo-2020-medieval-habits
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 5:52pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Ryan Lawrence, Cornell University </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:rwl224@cornell.edu">rwl224@cornell.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/renaissance">renaissance</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/theory">theory</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">September 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>ICMS KALAMAZOO 2020: MEDIEVAL HABITS <br /></p><p class="p1">This panel invites 15-20 minute papers concerned with medieval notions of habit. </p>
<p class="p1">The Latin <em>habitus </em>and the Middle English <em>habit </em>can mean “clothing,” “appearance,” “dwelling,” “bodily and mental constitution,” and “practice or behavior.” This panel draws on this wide range of meaning in order to bring together a variety of texts and contexts concerned with habit, including monastic and mystical texts, Aristotelean commentaries, medical texts, and legal and agricultural guides. How do habits shape medieval life? What do everyday, habitual ways of life tell us about medieval devotional practice, philosophy, labor, economy, bodily comportment, land use, and other aspects of medieval culture? </p>
<p class="p2">This panel encourages engagement with approaches of recent interest, such as phenomenology, material culture, and modes of everydayness, as well as more traditional approaches, such as historical practice and theology.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>Please submit a 250-word abstract to Ryan Lawrence and Seth Strickland at </strong><a href="mailto:rwl224@cornell.edu"><strong>rwl224@cornell.edu</strong></a><strong> by September 15th. </strong></p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 04:33:18 +0000rwl224@cornell.edu81895 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduDoctor Virtualis 16: The Middle Ages as a novelhttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/07/doctor-virtualis-16-the-middle-ages-as-a-novel
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Monday, September 9, 2019 - 2:20pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Università degli Studi di Milano</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:massimo.parodi@unimi.it">massimo.parodi@unimi.it</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/classical-studies">classical studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/journals-and-collections-of-essays">journals and collections of essays</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">October 30, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>The Middle Ages as a novel</strong></p>
<p>Middle Ages has received, maybe more than other historical periods, different narrations and representations sometimes opposing. We know that an historical epoch, and then also the medieval millennium, is not existing as defined and unitary object, but in front of multiple readings that the Middle Ages in the course of history has received, it becomes difficult to oppose to strong and unitary representations an hypothesis in which emerges various and plural aspects. In the next isssue of “Doctor Virtualis”, we propose to study the Middle Ages from the point of view of narration: a Middle Ages that narrates itself and a Middle Ages as place of narrations.<br />We would be pleased to receives contributions on this theme from two lines of direction. On the one hand, a world that recounts itself, its society, its mental horizon, its imaginary, through different literary forms. In this way, it emphasizes peculiarities and contradictions of the age, as we can see in the <em>Navigatio Sancti Brendani</em>. On the other hand, a Middle Ages that is object of narrations, as a period that arouses narrative imagination and, more than other periods, allows to probes the conception of history as narrative form (H. White).<br />The literary works by Umberto Eco, according to this perspective, is certainly an interesting point of reference and a source of inspiration. His novels describe his Middle Ages maybe better than his essays, because the narrative form seems better adapted to a multiplicity of perspectives, characters and atmospheres, which create their own object at the moment in which it is told. Themes like those of <em>auctoritas</em>, falsification, travel, the places of abbey (<em>The Name of the Rose</em>) or court (<em>Baudolino</em>), are just examples of possible ways to narrate the middle age, a period that proposes its lively complexity in the form of novel.<br />According to this direction, there are different representations, as it happens in <em>The Castle of Otranto</em> (Walpole), <em>Murder in the Cathedral</em> (Eliot), [<em>Brancaleone, il romanzo</em> (Age, Scarpelli, Monicelli)], <em>Ordalia</em> (Chiusano) to mention just a few titles among the hundreds that refer to this era in different ways and styles. Nonetheless various and plural are also the non-literary images that indicate a similar narrative tendency, because the Middle Age becomes object of a narration that sometimes tends to project some present exigencies in the past, as in the idealised and utopic Middle Age of William Morris, which contraposes his ideal to the mercantilist and industrial society of his times.<br />Contributes that reflect on these arguments, with a particular attention to medieval representations and to the ways in which this period is narrated, as emerges from the medieval, modern and contemporary thought and literature, will make it possible to delineate a period that finds its different identity in the constant and always new form of the narration.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Deadlines:</p>
<ul><li>Abstract submission (6-8000 chars): 30th October 2019</li>
<li>Abstract acceptance: 30th November 2019</li>
<li>Paper submission: 30th March 2020</li>
</ul><p> </p>
<p>Contacts: <a href="mailto:massimo.parodi@unimi.it">massimo.parodi@unimi.it</a>; <a href="mailto:amaliamariasofia.salvestrini@edu.unige.it">amaliamariasofia.salvestrini@edu.unige.it</a> <a href="https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/DoctorVirtualis/index">https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/DoctorVirtualis/index</a> </p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 17:22:05 +0000massimo.parodi@unimi.it81846 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduTides (for CEA on Hilton Head Isle 3/26-28/2020)https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/06/tides-for-cea-on-hilton-head-isle-326-282020
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Monday, September 9, 2019 - 1:36pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Lynne M. Simpson / College English Association</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:lsimpson@presby.edu">lsimpson@presby.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/renaissance">renaissance</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November 1, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The College English Association’s 51st national conference, from March 26-28, 2020, will be held on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where the tides shape the land and the culture, from food and drink to music and literature. CEA invites proposals from academics specializing in Medieval and Early Modern literature or cultural studies. We are especially interested in presentations that feature topics relating to tides in texts, disciplines, people, culture, media, and pedagogy. But in addition to our conference theme, we also welcome proposals on other topics within these two fields of study.</p>
<p>Abstracts of 250-500 words should be submitted electronically by November 1, 2019 through our conference management database housed at the following web address: <a href="https://www.conftool.pro/cea2020">https://www.conftool.pro/cea2020</a>.</p>
<p>Kindly address any questions to Prof. Lynne M. Simpson, Associate Director and Treasurer of CEA, at <a href="mailto:lsimpson@presby.edu">lsimpson@presby.edu</a>.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:35:47 +0000lsimpson@presby.edu81836 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduRenaissance Conference of Southern California, 64th Annual Conferencehttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/05/renaissance-conference-of-southern-california-64th-annual-conference
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 12:47pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Marlin E. Blaine / California State University, Fullerton</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:mblaine@fullerton.edu">mblaine@fullerton.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/eighteenth-century">eighteenth century</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/professional-topics">professional topics</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/renaissance">renaissance</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November 1, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p align="center"><strong>Renaissance Conference of Southern California</strong></p>
<p align="center">64th Annual Conference</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Saturday, 21 March 2020</strong></p>
<p align="center">The Huntington Library and Gardens</p>
<p align="center">Pasadena, CA</p>
<p align="center"><strong>PLENARY ROUNDTABLE</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>Interdisciplinary Research and the Renaissance: How to Do It </em></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Amy Buono </strong>(Art History, Chapman University)</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Katherine Powers </strong>(Music, California State University, Fullerton)</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Martine van Elk </strong>(English, California State University, Long Beach)</p>
<p> </p>
<p align="center"><strong>CALL FOR PAPERS</strong></p>
<p>The RCSC, a regional affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America, welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as complete panels on the full range of Renaissance disciplines (Art, Architecture, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science). In keeping with the 2020 Plenary Roundtable theme, papers and panels that employ interdisciplinary modes of inquiry are especially encouraged. The RCSC promotes the study of the period c. 1300–1800, broadly interpreting the Renaissance within a global framework. </p>
<p><strong>Please note that membership in the RCSC is required for conference participation. </strong>Please see our website for membership details: <a href="http://rcsconline.org">http://rcsconline.org</a></p>
<p>Individual paper submissions should include:</p>
<ul><li>abstract of approximately 250 words</li>
<li>contact information and one-page CV </li>
</ul><p>Panel Submissions are welcome and should include:</p>
<ul><li>contact information and one-page CV for organizer / chair </li>
<li>names and abstracts (c. 250 words) for all presenters </li>
<li>one-page CVs of all presenters</li>
<li>title and short (c. 150 word) description of the panel itself </li>
</ul><p>Please submit all applications on our website, <a href="http://rcsconline.org/">http://rcsconline.org/</a>, where you can also find more information about the conference. The submission portal may be found in cfp page on the dropdown menu headed "Annual Conference."</p>
<p><strong>Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2019</strong></p>
<p>If you have any questions, please contact the RCSC president, Heather Graham, at <a href="mailto:heather.graham@csulb.edu">heather.graham@csulb.edu</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:43:15 +0000mblaine@fullerton.edu81811 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduICMS Kalamazoo 2020: Medieval Virtualities (A Roundtable)https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/04/icms-kalamazoo-2020-medieval-virtualities-a-roundtable
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:10pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Danielle Allor / Program in Medieval Studies, Rutgers University</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:danielle.allor@rutgers.edu">danielle.allor@rutgers.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/theory">theory</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">September 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Medieval Virtualities (A Roundtable)</p>
<p>A Sponsored Session from the Program in Medieval Studies, Rutgers Univ.</p>
<p>55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS Kalamazoo), May 7-10, 2020</p>
<p>Medieval literature and art abound with representations of people and things that are not materially present but nevertheless have real effects, from visions of transcendent religious ecstasy to the inventions of rhetoric. Scholars such as Martin K. Foys, Elizabeth Fowler, Martha Dana Rust, and Seeta Chaganti have recently invoked new media, virtual subjects, manuscript matrices, and danced virtuality in relation to the Middle Ages. This roundtable seeks an interdisciplinary conversation on virtuality in the medieval period: its suitability as a term; its role in medieval philosophy; its connotations in critical theory; and its connections to modern understandings of representation and reality.</p>
<p>Send 250-word abstracts and Participant Information Forms to Danielle Allor (<a href="mailto:danielle.allor@rutgers.edu">danielle.allor@rutgers.edu</a>) by September 15.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 04 Sep 2019 23:49:22 +0000danielle.allor@rutgers.edu81800 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduOut of Place / Out of Time (Kalamazoo 2020)https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/04/out-of-place-out-of-time-kalamazoo-2020
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 3:22pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Network (MARGIN) - NYU</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:nyumargin@gmail.com">nyumargin@gmail.com</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/renaissance">renaissance</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/travel-writing">travel writing</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">September 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p id="docs-internal-guid-aa298a29-7fff-9d9e-f1c2-353456583428" dir="ltr">55th International Congress on Medieval Studies</p>
<p dir="ltr">Western Michigan University - May 7-10, 2020</p>
<p dir="ltr">Panel: “Out of Place / Out of Time”</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sponsored by MARGIN - New York University</p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">The Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Student Network is proud to announce a sponsored panel at the 55th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies. The theme of this year’s panel will be “Out of Place / Out of Time.” We invite papers that participate in a larger discussion of temporalities and places.</p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">The Panel takes its inspiration from the wide-breadth of work on the topics of place and time—from Carolyn Dinshaw’s How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time to Sarah Kay’s The Place of Thought to Mary Carruthers' The Book of Memory to Christopher Wood and Alexander Nagel’s Anachronic Renaissance. </p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">This year, we consider what might be the utility or harm of temporalities and localities? Where does thought have or not have a place? How might thought be placed or misplaced? The theme is broad by design in order to encourage wide-ranging papers, including those that have been underrepresented in medieval studies. We gladly encourage anyone to submit topics with a focus on non-European or non-Western material. </p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Submissions may focus on topics including, but not limited to</p>
<ul><li dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Medieval cartography, pilgrimage, and travel </p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">medieval anachronisms</p>
</li>
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<p dir="ltr">medieval timekeeping practices</p>
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<p dir="ltr">manuscripts, utopias, voids, and other unexpected spaces</p>
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<p dir="ltr">queering time and/or space</p>
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<p dir="ltr">posthumanist/new materialist conceptions of space-time</p>
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<p dir="ltr">apocalypses and other times after time</p>
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<p dir="ltr">modern responses to medieval/early-modern spatial and temporal paradigms</p>
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</ul><p>Please submit a 200-word abstract with a 50-word bio to <a href="mailto:nyumargin@gmail.com">nyumargin@gmail.com</a> with “2020 Panel Submission” in the headline by September 15. </p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 04 Sep 2019 13:04:50 +0000tm2794@nyu.edu81787 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduMedieval and Modern Racial Aesthetics (Roundtable) ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 7-10 2020https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/03/medieval-and-modern-racial-aesthetics-roundtable-icms-kalamazoo-may-7-10-2020
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 3:29pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Isabella Weiss / Program in Medieval Studies, Rutgers University</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:isabella.weiss@rutgers.edu">isabella.weiss@rutgers.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">September 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>International Contress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo 2020</p>
<p>In response to the recent emergence of race and racism as prominent fields of inquiry in medieval studies, David Nirenberg has cautioned that efforts to track the history of racism are prone to replicate the teleological logic of racism itself. In response to Nirenberg’s warning, this roundtable seeks an interdisciplinary conversation about the relationship between aesthetics and racist ideologies in medieval thought, as well as the reconstruction of the logic of medieval racism in modern and contemporary scholarship. Medieval physiognomic theory describes the body as a visual manifestation of the nature and quality of the soul. In the later middle ages, humoral, physiognomic, and environmental deterministic theories about the origins of bodily difference were integrated with an aesthetic elevation of the body of Christ. Modern methods of interpretation follow a similar logic by treating art and literature as a manifestation of the ideas and inner character of its creator and his/her society. This panel welcomes papers on the relationship between medieval conceptions of beauty, ideal form, and racism as well as papers on the reconstruction of the logic of racism in modern aesthetic theory and methods of interpretation as they are applied to the study of medieval intellectual history, art, and literature. </p>
<p>Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words (along with this participant information form: <a href="https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u434/2019/medieval-pif-2020.pdf">https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u434/2019/medieval-pif...</a>) by 15 September to Isabella Weiss (<a href="mailto:isabella.weiss@rutgers.edu">isabella.weiss@rutgers.edu</a>).</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:44:13 +0000isabella.weiss@rutgers.edu81776 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduL’amore, le armi, le stelle : Basinio da Parma and the Humanists at Sigismondo Malatesta’s Courthttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/03/l%E2%80%99amore-le-armi-le-stelle-basinio-da-parma-and-the-humanists-at-sigismondo-malatesta
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 3:45pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:simon.smets@neolatin.lbg.ac.at">simon.smets@neolatin.lbg.ac.at</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/classical-studies">classical studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/renaissance">renaissance</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November 4, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>By the middle of the fifteenth century Rimini had become a major center of Italian humanism. The cultural patronage of the famous<em>condottiere</em>Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417–1468), attracted numerous artists, writers, and scholars, who came to the city and created works for which Rimini is still widely known today. In spite of recently intensified research on this topic, various questions about the philosophical, literary and artistic output of this circle remain open. In particular, the historiography of Rimini itself leaves considerable room for new exploration, and this despite recent work on the architecture and pictural arts of the <em>quattrocento </em>city. In the philosophical and literary sphere, for example, the Aristotelian-Platonic milieu around Sigismondo has not yet received in depth study, and Valturio’s imaginative tract <em>De Re Militari</em>still awaits a modern edition or commentary.</p>
<p>One of the authors who has received attention, and whose profile underlines the importance of the Renaissance in Rimini is the poet Basinio da Parma. Basinio was a prolific author in many literary genres: His mythological poem <em>Meleagris</em>provides a modernised version of the Calydonian pigsticking; his didactic poem <em>Astronomica</em>studies the stars and the zodiac; while the <em>Liber Isottaeus</em>is an epistolary novel in elegiac couplets about the love between Sigismondo and Isotta degli Atti. </p>
<p>An ongoing project at the <em>Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies</em>in Innsbruck (Austria), funded by the <em>Austrian Science Fund</em>(FWF), is currently working towards a digital edition of his epic poem<em>Hesperis, </em>along with with a commentary and English translation. This poem was Basinio’s masterpiece and can only be understood against the wider backdrop of humanism in fifteenth century Northern Italy, and Rimini in particular. Not only do considerable historical and biographical details appear in the poem, the piece also reflects and discusses the most important cultural and literary debates of its time: philosophy, philology and education, art history and architecture etc.</p>
<p>The conference <em>L’amore, le armi, le stelle</em>intends to contextualize Basinio’s works and those of other humanists and artists within a broader framework. We invite interested speakers to propose conference papers of approx. 30 minutes with a focus on one of the following suggested (by no means exclusive) topics: </p>
<p> </p>
<ul><li>The historiography of the Malatestian court and its interaction with contemporary cultural dynamics, more specifically with Basinio;</li>
<li>The literary culture of Rimini: inter- and intratextuality in Basinio’s <em>oeuvre</em>, its narrative strategies and links with the vernacular tradition;</li>
<li>The sculptural and pictorial arts, architecture of the Renaissance city, and manuscript illuminations within the wider context of northern Italian <em>scriptoria</em>;</li>
<li>Philosophical trends in Rimini and northern Italy;</li>
<li>Greek influences and the reflection of knowledge of this language, especially in Basinio’s <em>Hesperis</em>;</li>
<li>Intermediality in Basinio’s <em>Hesperis</em>as a reflection of Rimini’s artistic and architectural culture;</li>
<li>The reception of Basinio in his time and later periods;</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul><p>Proposals (max. 250 words) are welcome before 4thNovember 2019.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Venue</strong>: Rimini (Museo della Città, Sala del Giudizio and Palazzo Buonadrata)</p>
<p><strong>Date</strong>: 14–16 May 2020</p>
<p><strong>Languages</strong>: English, Italian</p>
<p><strong>Key note speaker</strong>: John Monfasani (University at Albany, State University of New York)</p>
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<p>Travel and hotel costs will be covered for all speakers</p>
<p>We plan to publish the papers after the conference in a peer-reviewed volume.</p>
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<p>For any questions contact:</p>
<p>Anna Chisena: <a href="mailto:anna.chisena@neolatin.lbg.ac.at">anna.chisena@neolatin.lbg.ac.at</a></p>
<p>Simon Smets: <a href="mailto:simon.smets@neolatin.lbg.ac.at">simon.smets@neolatin.lbg.ac.at</a></p>
<p>Florian Schaffenrath: <a href="mailto:florian.schaffenrath@neolatin.lbg.ac.at">florian.schaffenrath@neolatin.lbg.ac.at</a></p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:09:23 +0000simon.smets@neolatin.lbg.ac.at81764 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduContra Imperium Forms of Dissent in England 1300-1700https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/02/contra-imperium-forms-of-dissent-in-england-1300-1700
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:51pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Insubria University, Como, Italy</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:contraimperium@uninsubria.it">contraimperium@uninsubria.it</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/medieval">medieval</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/renaissance">renaissance</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November 24, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Dates</strong>: 6-7 April 2020</p>
<p><strong>Venue</strong>: University of Insubria, Como, Italy</p>
<p><strong>Call for papers deadline</strong>: 24th November 2019</p>
<p><strong>Committee</strong>: Paola Baseotto (Insubria University), Omar Khalaf (Insubria University), Marie-Christine Munoz-Levy (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3)</p>
<p><strong>Confirmed keynote speakers</strong>: Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex) – Alessandra Petrina (University of Padova)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The purpose of this colloquium is to investigate various forms of dissent in England from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Our aim is to establish a network of researchers investigating the cultural, social and political dimensions of polemical texts. This first colloquium, which focuses on the language of dissent in England 1300-1700, will be followed by workshops at Insubria University and elsewhere on other relevant aspects of polemical writing.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Call for Papers</strong></p>
<p> </p>
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<p><em>And for dissension, who preferreth peace </em></p>
<p><em>More than I do?—except I be provoked.</em></p>
<p>Henry VI, III, 1, 32-33</p>
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<p><em>Civil dissension is a viperous worm </em></p>
<p><em>That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.</em></p>
<p>Henry VI, III, 1, 73-74</p>
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<p>The period 1300-1700 marked a turning point in the history of Western Europe. Social and political interactions were often characterized by feelings of intolerance towards some forms of civil and ecclesiastical authority. The publication in the early years of the sixteenth century of Erasmus’s <em>Praise of Folly,</em> Thomas More’s <em>Utopia</em> and the writings of great Protestant Reformers such as Luther, Karlstadt, Melanchthon, Zwingli and Calvin shook cultural and institutional pillars. England played a major role by challenging Papal hegemony through Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy and the establishment of an independent Church of England. Henry VIII’s policies, however, especially the dissolution of monasteries, were disputed by a group of fervent Roman Catholics gathering under the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace (1536-7). These events paved the way for successive waves of criticism.</p>
<p>Literary giants such as Shakespeare and Milton (the first in his historical tragedies, the other in his pamphlets) gave expressive voice to dissent. The first decades of the seventeenth century saw the flourishing of polemical writings gradually infiltrating the foundations of the State. The English Civil War (1642-51) stemmed from demands for a renewal of the political <em>status quo</em>.</p>
<p>Earlier forms of dissent are no less worthy of attention in themselves and as patterns for later articulations: the works of Margery Kempe (who suffered civil and religious persecution) and John Wyclif (a stern critic of the distance of the Church from evangelical poverty), are representative examples of a wider spirit of criticism that characterized the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>This first colloquium focuses on <strong>voices and expressions of dissent and opposition to power</strong> (whether political, religious, cultural, or social) in England 1300-1700.</p>
<p>Proposals for 20-minute papers are welcome on:</p>
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<p>- forms of dissent (in literary/non-literary texts)</p>
<p>- the language and rhetoric of dissent</p>
<p>- the addressees and circulation of polemical texts</p>
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<p>Select contributions will be published in a peer-reviewed edited volume.</p>
<p>Proposals for a 20-minute presentation in the form of a brief abstract (200-250 words) and a short biographical note should be emailed by <strong>24th November 2019</strong> as pdf/word files to <strong><a href="mailto:contraimperium@uninsubria.it">contraimperium@uninsubria.it</a></strong></p>
<p>Notification of proposal acceptance: 10th December 2019</p>
<p>Registration opens in January 2020.</p>
<p>Early bird registration (€ 60) is available until 14th February, 2020, the full fee is € 70.</p>
<p>The registration fee includes a book of abstracts, coffee break and lunch on Monday 6th April and Tuesday 7th April 2020. </p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 02 Sep 2019 20:37:44 +0000paola.baseotto@uninsubria.it81758 at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu